KLOK

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For the 11th edition of TodaysArt Mike Rijnierse has developed a site specific work for the pier in Scheveningen. During the festival, a 100 kg church bell will be thrown from the bungee jump, situated on the tower at the pier, where the festival will take place. The sixty meters deep fall of the bell will result in a unique sound experience.

While contacting Royal Eijsbouts Bell Foundry – world’s largest manufacturer of cast bronze bells, carillons, swinging bells, clocks, and bell- and clock towers – for asking whether they wanted to contribute to the project, Joep van Brussel asked if he had understood it correctly: “So, it is like cycling towards a church with the speed of 60 km per hour?”. The answer lies in the question. Joep immediately understood what is the concept of KLOK.

The effect is commonly heard when a sounding object approaches, passes, and recedes from an observer. Compared to the emitted frequency, the received frequency is higher during the approach, identical at the instant of passing by, and lower during the recession. So the fall of the sounding bell will cause a Doppler effect.

Surrounded by water Bungy Jump Scheveningen is a unique location.
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source: mikerijniersenl

Biography (August 2015): Mike Rijnierse

Mike Rijnierse born in Haarlem The Netherlands (1974) is an artist known for his large scale site specific installations, where the audience gets incorporated into the context of the work.

In 2005 he developed the 16 channel sound installation PAN which stretched out along a 170 meter path inside of the sculpture garden of the Kröller-Müller Museum for the opening of Kijk Uit!/Attention! by Krijn Giezen. That work was followed in that same year by a 16 channel sound installation CITY CIRCLES in the Grote Marktstraat, The Hague. And in 2007 he created THX: INT’L (the landing strip) which turned out to be a great success. The next year TodaysArt approached him to develop a concept for the Central Station of The Hague, which he developed in collaboration with Staalplaat Soundsystem and Erik Hobijn. This resulted in STATION TO STATION (Sonic Surrounds).

In 2008 Mike received the BNG Project Price for the work LUMOKINESE, a kinetic light installation based on the interplay of light and color in its architectural context, which was shown in various places including the Transmediale in Berlin.

The research on light and color in architectural context is an ongoing theme in the work of the artist. More recently the installation CUBE was released. An piece based on the kaleidoscope, which operates on the principle of multiple reflections. Several mirrors are placed at an angle to one another. In contrast to the classical kaleidoscope, where light enters the object, in this work a set of lights inside the object projects the multiplication outside of the object, into the space.

Apart from installations, he develops music theater as a member of the Rosa Ensemble, a contemporary music theater collective which operates more as a band than as a theater group. In which Mike is part of the whole development and performance on stage. Currently playing the show PELOTON.

His installations and performances are instruments in which dialogue and interaction are developed for sensory investigation, as a platform for interdisciplinary research. The relation of space and time or the geography and the perception of the observer are used as parameters for musical development.

As a docent at Interaction Design department of ArtEZ Art Academy, Arnhem (NL) since 2009, Mike developed the course Design of Instruments. The course is focused on the development of new design tools and instruments.

He was involved in the founding and the development of project and work spaces such as De Vloek, Scheveningen and DCR, The Hague. Today he is based at Quartair, Contemporary Artist Initiatives in The Hague, where he runs a studio and is part of the collective responsible for management and programming of the project space.

Graduated at the Interfaculty Image and Sound (today ArtScience Interfaculty) at the Royal Academy of Art and the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague (2001). Currently studying at MSc Media Technology, Leiden University (NL).